Pages

1 August 2016

Francis mandates changes for contemplative women religious, requests revision of constitutions

Vatican City Pope Francis has issued a new wide-ranging set of guidelines for how the tens of thousands of Catholic women religious living in contemplative communities around the world should regulate their lifestyles, calling on them to implement changes in 12 diverse areas from prayer life to work habits.
The pontiff has also mandated that each of the global communities of contemplative women religious will need to adapt their various governing constitutions or rules to the new changes and send new versions of their documents to the Vatican for approval.

https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/francis-mandates-wide-changes-contemplative-women-religious-requests-revision-all